What Pretoria should have done was play it cool, refuse to indulge the media circus surrounding the upcoming summit, and candidly discuss everything with the bloc behind closed doors. That would have kept up appearances for all parties involved and facilitated the possibility of fully transferring the event to an online format without any explanation…
The US Ambassador’s allegations about South Africa arming Russia can be interpreted as a pivotal development in that targeted state’s balancing act between those two rivals. US Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety II told local media on Thursday that “We are confident that weapons were loaded onto [Russia’s sanctioned Lady R last December], and…
The indisputable trend is that Germany is weaponizing “green” goals by conning South Africa into exporting all of its coal to Europe as part of its promised energy transition, which serves the purpose of maintaining Germany’s industrialization amidst its radical diversification from Russian dependence, instead of allowing that BRICS leader to rely on this resource…
South Africa has proven that it’s truly a major country with an independent foreign policy that always keeps its options open and never closes them to anyone. BRICS-member South Africa practices a policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict whereby it neither supports nor opposes any of the combatants. Instead, just like the vast…
Vilakazi Street in Soweto is perhaps the most famous street in all of Johannesburg, maybe even in all of South Africa. The street is named after Dr. B.W. Vilakazi, who was a South African poet, novelist, and intellectual. He was the first Black South African to teach at the University of the Witwatersrand; though, because…
The Indo-Pacific is rapidly becoming the convergence point of many of the world’s geostrategic processes, but Russia has yet to formulate an official policy towards this vast space, which places it at a disadvantage vis-a-vis its Great Power peers. The Indo-Pacific is among the top buzzwords in the foreign policy community nowadays because this vast…
